Chester Police Lock Ups

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Records

Overview

Prison Type   Local Lock-up

Date opened   c1840

Date closed   unknown

Location   Market Place   Chester

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Cheshire

Critical Remarks

It is unclear from the Prison Inspectorate Reports whether multiple lock ups were inspected and where these were located in Chester. Only one lock up was described in any detail, the first inspected by Prison Inspectors in 1840 which had been recently constructed in market place almost contiguous to town hall.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Lock-up

Date opened   c1840

Date closed   unknown

Location   Market Place   Chester

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.1913206  Long.   -2.8932598

County   Cheshire

Critical Remarks

It is unclear from the Prison Inspectorate Reports whether multiple lock ups were inspected and where these were located in Chester. Only one lock up was described in any detail, the first inspected by Prison Inspectors in 1840 which had been recently constructed in market place almost contiguous to town hall.

Principal Primary Sources

  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.1), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.109; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.144; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.97; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.75; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.40